Compiler-trained engineering for the Microsoft Office you already own.
Daniel C. Williston has spent over 30 years turning Excel, Access, Word, Project, and Visio into mission-critical infrastructure for construction, logistics, and material handling — building the automation, estimating systems, and reporting engines that big software budgets usually pay six figures for.
You don't need new software. You need what you already own to actually perform.
Most organizations license Excel, Access, Word, Project, and Visio and then buy separate, expensive software to do what those tools were already capable of. Daniel's career has run the opposite direction from the start: he built his first estimating workbook in Lotus 123 back in the early 1980s, years before earning his Computer Science degree, and has treated spreadsheet and office tools as engineering platforms ever since. By 1993, running a formal comparison of Lotus 123, Visual Basic, and an early beta of Excel VBA at Arthur Andersen, the platform of choice became clear — and he's built on that decision for over 30 years.
With a Computer Science degree from Michigan State University's College of Engineering, specialized in compiler design, he brings a formal parsing-and-code-generation mindset to a toolset most people think of as spreadsheets. The result: automation that reads source code, drawings, and legacy documents the way a compiler reads a program — and turns them into schedules, estimates, specifications, and reports automatically.
At a glance
- Education
- B.S. Computer Science, Michigan State University (College of Engineering) — compiler design specialization, General Engineering minor
- Focus industries
- Construction, Material Handling, Logistics, Distribution, Manufacturing, Accounting/Finance
- Core toolset
- Excel, Access, Word, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, VBA, COM
- Recognition
- 2010 Siemens Mobility Project Excellence Award (1st place); 2011 IPMA Project Excellence Award (2nd place); CMM Level III
Engineering services built on the MS Office Suite
Every offering below traces back to a real system Daniel has built and shipped over three decades in the field — not a theoretical capability.
Custom VBA & Office Automation
Purpose-built tools inside Excel, Access, Word, PowerPoint, Project, and Visio that replace manual, error-prone workflows with governed, repeatable ones.
Estimating & Project Controls
Parametric estimating workbooks, auto-populating pricing tools, schedule-of-values tracking, and Earned Value Management reporting.
Process & Lean Engineering
Visio-driven flow diagrams that auto-generate configuration files, routing tables, functional specs, and test cases — not just pictures.
Legacy Code & Document Parsing Tools
AWK/LEX/YACC-inspired parsing engines, written natively in VBA, that read source code or documents and generate structured output automatically.
Training & Ongoing Support
Hands-on enablement so your team can maintain and extend what's built — maximizing the Office investment you're already paying for.
The Logic Wise Code Library
70,000+ lines of modular VBA — procedures, classes, and forms — being packaged for licensing as an Access repository, COM DLLs, or standalone modules.
Explore the library →A career measured in saved hours and won awards
A sample of the results behind the resume — full detail on the Case Studies page.
$95M UPS Worldport Expansion
Logistics plan and EVM reporting for a turnkey conveyor project — 1st place 2010 Siemens Mobility Project Excellence Award.
$100M Airport Parcel System
Warehouse Management System and FlexSim modeling for material flow across a 330K sq ft offsite warehouse to a live construction site.
AWK-Powered CRUD Matrix Generator
Replaced a 300-man-hour manual audit with a single automated program across 20,000+ stored procedures.
Have a process that Office should already be doing for you?
Whether it's an estimating workbook, a document-parsing tool, or a full construction/logistics controls system — let's talk about what's possible.